Ed Bereal
Ed Bereal attended Chouinard Art Institute from 1958-1962 and later taught at University of California, Irvine and Western Washington University. His work is in the collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); The Smithsonian Institute (Washington D.C.); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA); Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX); and The Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn NY) among others. Recent exhibitions include the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France) in 2006 and Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden) in 2009; L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints, Tilton Gallery (New York, NY) in 2006; as well as participating in Pacific Standard Time at The Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA) in 2011. His first museum retrospective, Wanted: Ed Bereal for Disturbing the Peace at the Whatcom Museum of Art (Bellingham, WA) in 2019 and Bereal’s APEX installation at The Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR) was on view February 23, 2020 through June 27, 2021.
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sense of place
Group Exhibition Mar 5 - May 2, 2026Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to announce sense of place , a group exhibition featuring work by 17 artists, some new to the gallery and others who first exhibited their...Read more -
Wanted: Ed Bereal for "Still Disturbing the Peace"
Ed Bereal Aug 3 - Sep 2, 2023The gallery is pleased to present Wanted: Ed Bereal for “Still Disturbing the Peace” , featuring new sculptural installations by Ed Bereal . The exhibition continues Bereal's many year examination...Read more -
Studio Series: Survey of Drawings 1958 - 2020
Ed Bereal Nov 5, 2020 - Jan 2, 2021The Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Ed Bereal: Studio Studies - Survey of Drawings 1958 - 2020, featuring small and large scale drawings and collage created over six...Read more
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Ed Bereal
MOCA LA's acquisition of Bereal on view until January 3, 2027 Oct 20, 2026In These Times: Recent Acquisitions On view until January 3, 2027 Earlier this year, we announced MOCA LA's acquisition of Bereal’s Gargoyles (1992). The piece...Read more -
Ed Bereal
Bereal's political drawings acquired by The Whitney Mar 2, 2026Three drawings from the 1990's by Elizabeth Leach Gallery artist Ed Bereal , Miss America , Lost in the U.S.A./Self Portrait , and One Nation...Read more -
Ed Bereal
Ed Bereal in The Whitney Exhibition, "Sixties Surreal" Sep 24, 2025Elizabeth Leach Gallery artist Ed Bereal is included in the group exhibition Sixties Surreal at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Sixties Surreal brings together...Read more

